How long did the Tyndinsky District fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 20 June 2024 to 12 July 2024 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 21 June 2024 to 12 July 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,391 hectares (83.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Tyndinsky District (8,551 ha, 0.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Russia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

RU · Russia · 2024-06-20 → 2024-07-12

Tyndinsky District fire, 20 June 2024 Tyndinsky District

Out · last detection 9 Jul 2024, 18:18 UTC

The fire started on 20 June 2024 in Tyndinsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,391 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 194th largest in Amur Oblast since 2016 (of 535 with a page). Number 198 in Russia in 2024, of 558.

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Burnt area: 8,391ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 23days; 20 Jun 2024 – 12 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 20 Jun; 2024
Heat detections: 696; in a single hotspot: 115 MW
Danger at start: 2; Very low · FWI index
Average daily power: 203MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jun12 Jul

Play back 9 Jul 2024

How it evolved, day by day

20 Jun 23 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 2 Jul 5 Jul 9 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high

45km/h · peak gust

21%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.4 mm on 13 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 5.3% of the area of London (84 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Tyndinsky District where it started

8,551 ha reached on 20 Jun

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
20 Jun	23.7 °C	27 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 2
21 Jun	23.4 °C	33 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
22 Jun	24.0 °C	31 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
23 Jun	24.9 °C	36 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
24 Jun	25.6 °C	30 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
25 Jun	24.0 °C	38 %	28 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 13
26 Jun	27.1 °C	28 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
27 Jun	21.3 °C	31 %	38 km/h	0.5 mm	Moderate 17
28 Jun	19.3 °C	39 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
29 Jun	19.3 °C	32 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
30 Jun	23.9 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
1 Jul	29.2 °C	27 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
2 Jul	31.7 °C	30 %	27 km/h	1.5 mm	Moderate 13
3 Jul	32.2 °C	24 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
4 Jul	25.1 °C	46 %	26 km/h	2.0 mm	Low 6
5 Jul	25.1 °C	41 %	30 km/h	2.0 mm	Very low 5
6 Jul	22.0 °C	29 %	36 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 14
7 Jul	24.9 °C	21 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
8 Jul	27.5 °C	25 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
9 Jul	28.0 °C	26 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
10 Jul	26.8 °C	31 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
11 Jul	26.5 °C	28 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
12 Jul	26.6 °C	31 %	21 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 17
13 Jul after	17.9 °C	66 %	44 km/h	12.4 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 13 Jun 2024

After · 19 Jul 2024

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 10 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 814 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 371: 25 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak814 µg/m³

Days over the guideline23 days

PM101,162 µg/m³

Optical depth7.36

WHO 15

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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 696Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tyndinsky District fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 20 June 2024 to 12 July 2024 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 21 June 2024 to 12 July 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,391 hectares (83.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Tyndinsky District (8,551 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Russia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Start date: 21 June 2024 → 20 June 2024.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 21 June 2024 to 12 July 2024. 696 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.

Where it burned